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After a public outcry, Fisheries Queensland in Australia says it will not fine a man who rescued a baby humpback whale tangled in a shark net. After the rescue, the agency served the man, identified by media only as Django, with two infringement notices for entering the area around the shark nets and warned him he could face fines. Django and witnesses told media they reported the whale to authorities and waited hours before he went out to rescue it.
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Django unfined?
Untangled.
nice. Both of you get +1 internet cookies.
Should have just said he was protesting for #WhaleLivesMatter.
White whale privilege.
Paging Captain Ahab, Captain Ahab white courtesy phone.
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...they reported the whale to authorities and waited hours before he went out to rescue it.
If civilians can just do for the whales themselves then what would we need Fisheries Queensland authorities? No competition.
That and LEGAL lifeguards, like Ronald Reagan.
Let's be honest, the real reason he was fined was that he showed that any bloke off the street could do the same job as the government agency, just without the million-dollar price tag and stifling bureaucratic presence.
True. If he'd raised a dead leper back to life and the Vatican didn't burn him at the stake, the Landover Baptists would have strung him up fer meddlin' in what were no concern of his'n.
In eighteen hundred and forty six
On March the eighteenth day
We hoisted our colors to the top of the mast
And for Queensland sailed away
....in chains, no doubt.
That's Greenland, not Queensland. But if you learned that song from the Pogues' heavily accented performance, I can understand the mistake.
The United States Coast Guard used to shoot whales as practice with their four-pounders used to kill rum-runners. But I'm confused here. Is not the Political State the Deus Ex Machina that--in the Ecological National Socialist faith--saves all whales and baby seals? Isn't this sort of PRIVATE meddling tantamount to reverse vigilanteism?
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